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Save the Date! See this 2-part exhibition and attend the national Symposium
November 8 - 11. Thank you for spreading the word about this major Garry
Winogrand project.
News Release
Contact: Jeanne Courtemanche
520-626-5215 (press inquiries)
520-621-7968 (public information)
June 2001
"THE GARRY WINOGRAND GAME OF PHOTOGRAPHY"
TWO-PART EXHIBITION CULLED FROM CCP'S VAST ARCHIVE
"Part I: The Known" Surveys Some of His Most Recognized, Published, and
Exhibited Prints
Exhibitions Change During Three-Day National Symposium in November
"Part II: The New" Surveys Newly Discovered, Unknown Images from CCP's
Winogrand Archive, Selected by Six Curators: Hilton Als, Bill Jay, Richard
Misrach, Melissa Holbrook Pierson / Luc Sante, Charles Stainback, and Trudy
Wilner Stack
(TUCSON, ARIZONA)--The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the
University of Arizona is pleased to announce a major, two-part exhibition on
the work of acclaimed American photographer Garry Winogrand (1928-1984),
whose influential street photography, often of his native New York City,
brought a new visual order to the chaos of modern street life and
contemporary American culture. Featuring more than 300 prints, many of them
unknown, culled from CCP's massive and extraordinary Garry Winogrand
Archive, "The Garry Winogrand Game of Photography" reexamines one of
photography's most obsessive and legendary image-makers.
"The Garry Winogrand Game of Photography, Part I: The Known" will be on view
from October 6 through November 9, 2001. A national symposium will take
place November 8 to 11 with presentations by noted and current scholars and
critics studying Winogrand and the guest curators from the second
exhibition. During this weekend, the exhibitions will change, and "Part II:
The New" will be on view from November 11, 2001 through January 6, 2002.
"This astounding and under recognized archive was due for thorough and
innovative attention," said Trudy Wilner Stack, Curator of Collections &
Exhibitions at CCP. "By carefully documenting past understandings of his
work and fostering new interpretations based on unknown images, 'The Garry
Winogrand Game of Photography' cracks open thinking about this crucial
photographer, inviting a new generation of scholarship and appreciation."
"The Garry Winogrand Game of Photography, Part I: The Known"
October 6 - November 9, 2001
It would be a boring photograph, at least to me, if it didn't involve itself
in my game. --Garry Winogrand
The Center for Creative Photography begins a two-part exploration of the
Garry Winogrand Archive with a survey of his published and exhibited prints.
Many of Winogrand's most recognizable works will be featured, including
selections from all of his major book projects: "The Animals" (1969), "Women
Are Beautiful" (1975), "Public Relations" (1977), and "Stock Photographs"
(1980). This exhibition is curated by Trudy Wilner Stack and Karen Jenkins,
Special Projects Curatorial Assistant, as a material chronology of
Winogrand's career through research materials and the images that came to
define it in exhibitions, portfolios, and influential publications. Spanning
vintage prints from his first solo show in a commercial gallery in 1960 to
the controversial, posthumously printed works selected by New York's Museum
of Modern Art for its major 1988 retrospective, the recognized canon of
photographs that distinguish one of photography's most original and
substantial voices takes on new dimensions in this in-depth overview.
"The Garry Winogrand Game of Photography, Part II: The New"
November 11, 2001 - January 6, 2002
The game of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely
fascinating. --Garry Winogrand
Less than twenty-four hours after closing its first exhibition of the known
images of Garry Winogrand, CCP will premiere another major celebration of
one of its richest and most complex archives in an innovative presentation
of newly discovered works. Six distinguished guest curators and CCP's
curator have worked independently to uncover pictures that further
illuminate a photographer whose contributions and approach to his field are
landmark. Their diverse perspectives offer fresh takes on Winogrand and
broaden existing scholarship. Opening with a three-day symposium, "The Garry
Winogrand Game of Photography, Part II: The New" will concentrate on
never-before-seen images selected from CCP's vast holdings. Collectively,
these images will attest to Winogrand's probing, groundbreaking pursuit of
the unique language of photography and his remarkable interpretations of the
culture he obsessively addressed with his camera.
The six guest curators for "The Garry Winogrand Game of Photography, Part
II: The New":
Hilton Als is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a regular contributor to
Artforum International and Grand Street and was awarded a Guggenheim
Fellowship for writing in 2000. He has contributed essays to "Lynching
Photography in America" (2000) and "Our Town: Images & Stories from the
Museum of the City of New York" (1997), and has authored several books
including "The Group" (forthcoming); and "The Women" (1996).
Bill Jay was the first Director of Photography at the Institute of
Contemporary Arts in England and the first editor/director of "Creative
Camera" and "Album" magazines. He founded the program of photographic
studies at Arizona State University, where he taught for 25 years. His
recent publications include "61 Pimlico" (1997); and "Occam's Razor: An
Outside-In View of Contemporary Photography" (1992).
Richard Misrach has been photographing in the American West for over thirty
years and is the recipient of four NEA Visual Artists Fellowships and a
Guggenheim Fellowship. His work is represented in more than fifty major
museum collections, including CCP, and is the subject of several
award-winning monographs, among them "Desert Cantos" (1987); "Violent
Legacies" (1992); "The Sky Book" (2000); and the soon-to-be-published
"Richard Misrach: Golden Gate" (2001).
Melissa Holbrook Pierson / Luc Sante. Pierson is author of "Dark Horses and
Black Beauties: Animals, Women, a Passion" (2000); and "The Perfect Vehicle:
What It Is About Motorcycles" (1997). Sante is Visiting Professor of Writing
and the History of Photography at Bard College. A contributor to The New
York Times Book Review and The New York Review of Books, he is also author
of "Walker Evans" (2001); "The Factory of Facts" (1998); "Evidence" (1992);
"Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York" (1991). Pierson and Sante
co-edited "O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors" (1999).
Charles Stainback is Dayton Director at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art
Gallery and professor in Liberal Studies at Skidmore College, and the former
Director of Exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, New York
City. He has authored several books and curated numerous exhibitions,
including "Special Collections: The Photographic Order from Pop to Now"
(1993-4); "David Levinthal, Work from 1975-1996" (1997); and "Vik Muniz:
Seeing is Believing" (1998).
Trudy Wilner Stack, Curator of Collections & Exhibitions at CCP, is the
project's Supervising Curator and Curator for one of the sections of "Part
II: The New." Wilner Stack was recently awarded the prestigious 2001/2002
Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Getty Grant Program of the J. Paul
Getty Trust, enabling her to pursue more in-depth scholarly research for
this exhibition and a subsequent publication.
A version of this exhibition, organized by CCP, will travel to other venues.
This exhibition is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts,
a federal agency.
ABOUT GARRY WINOGRAND
Born in New York City in 1928, Garry Winogrand was introduced to photography
in the darkrooms of Columbia University when he was in his twenties and was
soon shooting freelance assignments for a variety of clients, including the
magazines Collier's and Harper's Bazaar. After seeing the book "American
Photographs" by Walker Evans and taking his first cross-country photographic
trip in 1955, Winogrand soon began to challenge the boundaries of
journalistic practice and became a distinguished and unique voice in
photography. While his first solo exhibition was mounted at Image Gallery in
New York City in 1960, it would be John Szarkowski and the Museum of Modern
Art who would construct the predominant institutional and critical framing
of Garry Winogrand, including the 1988 retrospective, that persists to this
day. The influential 1967 MoMA exhibition "New Documents," which aligned
Winogrand's work with that of Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander, drew upon
images he made during trips funded by the first of three Guggenheim
Fellowships awarded the photographer. His four major book projects, "The
Animals" (1969), "Women are Beautiful" (1975), "Public Relations" (1977),
and "Stock Photographs" (1980), reveal a diverse array of subjects, but the
photographer's most characteristic images explore the city
streets-photographed voraciously in his native New York City, as well as
across the United States and in Europe. Well-known for his reticence to
articulate his intentions and the potential meanings of his photographs in
words, Winogrand nevertheless taught the medium to students throughout his
career. Teaching positions also precipitated several moves away from New
York City-to the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology in
Chicago (1971-72), and the University of Texas in Austin (1973-78).
Winogrand's final relocation took him to Los Angeles in 1978 where he
resided until his death in 1984.
ABOUT THE GARRY WINOGRAND ARCHIVE AT CCP
The Garry Winogrand Archive at the Center for Creative Photography is the
largest depository of the photographer's work in the world, established in
1983 when Winogrand found it necessary to give up his long-unoccupied New
York City apartment. At that time, Winogrand selected a large number of
prints and contact sheets and related materials housed there to establish
his archive at CCP. The remainder of the archive was formed in 1992-93,
ultimately comprising over 20,000 fine and work prints, 20,000 contact
sheets, 100,000 negatives, and 30,500 35mm color slides, as well as a small
group of Polaroid prints and several amateur motion picture films. Work from
all of Winogrand's major book projects and key exhibitions are represented
in this vast collection, which is also marked by a extraordinary depth of
little-known and unknown photographs spanning his career. In addition, CCP's
Winogrand holdings include early commercial prints, the complete set of
exhibition prints from the photographer's first solo exhibition at New York
City's Image Gallery in 1960, as well as portfolios from Double Elephant
Press and Hyperion Press. CCP published an issue of its scholarly journal
about Winogrand, "The Archive #26: Garry Winogrand: Early Work" (1990). For
the 2001 32e Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, France,
Wilner Stack and Jenkins also curated "Winogrand's Street Theater:
Selections from the Garry Winogrand Archive at the Center for Creative
Photography" exclusively from the CCP archive. To access CCP archives, the
public can make an appointment for a PrintViewing (520-621-7968) or to study
in the Research Center (520-621-6273).
ABOUT THE CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona is an
archive, museum, and research institution, dedicated to photography as an
art form and cultural record, and is celebrating its 25th Anniversary in
2000 and 2001. CCP holds more archives and individual works by 20th-century
North American photographers than any other museum in the nation, including
the archives of over sixty major photographers--Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon,
Lola Alvarez Bravo, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, W. Eugene Smith, and Edward Weston
among them--whose prints are the centerpiece of an art collection numbering
more than 60,000 works by 2,000 photographers. CCP has an integrated program
of preservation, access, and education that celebrates the history of
photography and its contemporary practice. Visitors enjoy a changing
exhibition program, Research Center, educational programs, Library, Museum
Store, and public access to the vast collection through the renowned
PrintViewing program. These exhibitions cap the Center for Creative
Photography's 25th anniversary year.
GENERAL INFORMATION
EXHIBITIONS:
"The Garry Winogrand Game of Photography, Part I: The Known"
October 6 - November 9, 2001
"The Garry Winogrand Game of Photography, Part II: The New"
November 11, 2001 - January 6, 2002
SYMPOSIUM:
The Garry Winogrand Game of Photography: The Symposium
November 8 - 11, 2001 (times and program to be announced)
* About twelve distinguished speakers including: Hilton Als, Bill Jay,
Richard Misrach, Melissa Holbrook Pierson / Luc Sante, Charles Stainback,
Mike Weaver, and CCP's Trudy Wilner Stack, Curator of Exhibitions &
Collections; Karen Jenkins, Special Projects Curatorial Assistant; and
Leslie Calmes, Archivist
* First-ever showing of 2 full exhibitions of work by Garry Winogrand in 1
weekend; "Part I: The Known" and "Part II: The New" change in one weekend
* Slide show of Winogrand's rarely seen color work
* FREE and open to the public.
* Register by October 26 (Email-able form below, HTML form:
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/ccp/press/WinograndSymposiumRegist
ration.html, or PDF form:
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/ccp/pdf/WinograndSymposium.pdf).
Contact 520-626-5219 or [log in to unmask] with questions
* Accommodations:
Tucson hotels holding blocks of rooms at a discounted rate, until October 8:
Marriott University Park (520-792-4100) $89, within walking distance of CCP
Hotel Congress (520-622-8848) single $49.73; double $66.30
Westward Look Resort (1-800-722-2500) $116
* Call for Papers:
Please submit a 300-600 word proposal by August 15, 2001 on any research
topics, from any discipline, that directly address the photography of Garry
Winogrand; include C.V. and cover letter. For more information about
attending and/or submitting papers: ATTN: Winogrand Symposium, Center for
Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210103, Tucson,
AZ, 85721; 520-626-5219; fax: 520-621-9444
Additional programs in conjunction with these exhibitions to be announced.
HOURS:
The gallery is open Monday-Friday, 9 am to 5 pm; weekends, 12 pm to 5 pm
ADMISSION:
CCP exhibitions, PrintViewings and events are always FREE and open to the
public.
LOCATION:
Center for Creative Photography
The University of Arizona
1030 North Olive Road, Tucson, Arizona, 85721
(in the Fine Arts Complex, at SE corner of Park Ave. & Speedway Boulevard).
Convenient parking is available at the Park Avenue Garage at the corner of
Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard.
INFORMATION:
Call 520-621-7968 or visit http://www.creativephotography.org
PRESS CONTACT:
Jeanne Courtemanche, 520-626-5215, [log in to unmask]
Online version of this news release
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/ccp/press/WinograndRelease.htm
News release on Getty Fellowship Awarded CCP Curator
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/ccp/press/WinograndGettyGrant.htm
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REGISTRATION FORM
The Garry Winogrand Game of Photography: THE SYMPOSIUM
NOVEMBER 8 - 11, 2001
Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona
The symposium is FREE and open to the public.
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- send you the final symposium program schedule
- alert you about special evening events
- guarantee you a seat at all talks
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